dace
/deɪs/noun
dace is spelled D-A-C-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dace means “A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dace is daces.
How many letters and syllables are in dace?
| Letters | 4: D-A-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dace?
Dace appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dace?
- /deɪs/
Dace has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dace.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dace?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dace.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cade, aced, deca, ecad.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dace
- daces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dace mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
- 2
USAny of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dace in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Leuciscus leuciscus:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dace come from?
Old variant of earlier darse, from Late Middle English darse (also as dace already), from Old French darz, oblique plural form of dart (“spear; javelin”). For a similar loss of r, compare bass, while for the pronunciation with /eɪ/, see scarce.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).